Researchers who spent three years dragging sheets of fabric through the woods to snag ticks have created a detailed map they claim could improve prevention, diagnosis and treatment of Lyme disease.

Hopatcong Councilman Mike Francis is drafting an ordinance that would legalize bow hunting deer on borough-owned land.

Now being tested for Lyme disease, ticks from the Auburn area are showing that bites from the infectious bug aren’t just a spring and summer hazard on the trails.

In one of The Herald’s weekly “Public Professor” columns last September, University of Lethbridge environmental science professor Dan Johnson raised a serious environmental issue.